Ballots to remain uncounted in MI and Stein blocked in Philly. Guest: Election integrity, law expert Paul Lehto says this proves 'only option is to get it right on Election Night'. Also: Trump taps climate denier, fossil-fuel tool for EPA...

Today, amongst the reports of failures in elections across the country, there was good news from Wisconsin where their Assembly voted nearly unanimously for a vvpat. One newspaper in New Jersey reported that Sequoia Voting still had to verify the election before it could be certified. Have they really turned over their elections administration to a private company? And, election poll printouts have reportedly been found in the weeds outside a gas station in Lucas Co., OH. Is this a sign of a problem? Something illegal? Just a human error?...

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Fitrakis and Wasserman have an essay at freepress.org that must be read. The various ballot initiatives that were defeated in Ohio (by large margins) were either favored to be approved in pre-election polls or considered a toss-up.

The differences between the polls and the recorded vote are so wide as to be impossible. The obvious conclusion drawn by Fitrakis and Wasserman is that the new electronic machines used to count the votes were hacked in the Republicans' favor.

Surprise, surprise. Other states are banning these machines, yet Ohio uses them to defeat measures that, among other reforms, would lead to cleaner elections. Also "defeated" was a proposal to remove districting questions from the political process...an idea that had only merit on its side.

Encourage everyone you can to vote absentee. You must submit an application to request an absentee ballot. (In OH one of the amendments that was "soundly defeated" would have made absentee voting easier...)

As a form of protest we should refuse to vote on DIEBOLD touchscreens.